Body mass index as a correlate of postoperative complications and resource utilization
- 31 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 102 (3) , 277-283
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9343(96)00451-2
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